Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

- Bradley, Francis H.

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, Albert

Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Diderot, Denis

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Ball, Lucille

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It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Robbins, Anthony

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Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

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To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

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Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

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The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Maitland, Frederic William

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The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Gide, Andre

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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Bible

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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

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When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

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Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

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'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Pound, Ezra

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Twain, Mark

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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.

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It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

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Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Denham, Sir John

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Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

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Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

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